Winning Friends…

Today in Iran… https://t.co/2AYez8Di0o

— The Tennessee Holler (@TheTNHoller) March 3, 2026

They’re going to take over the government any time now….

WATCH — @mehdirhasan: “Every Republican president does this. Every Republican president cuts benefits for the poor, taxes for the rich, and bombs a Middle East country. Trump promised he'd be different… while he & his allies told voters Kamala would send their kids to die.” pic.twitter.com/dxlxxAdyxe

— The Tennessee Holler (@TheTNHoller) March 3, 2026

Bill Clinton told us the US economy is always better under Democrats. The GOP is the party of oligarchs.

This is what happens when oligarchs control the *news* pic.twitter.com/y6JejjbTIA

— The Tennessee Holler (@TheTNHoller) March 3, 2026

See?

Q: “Did Israel force your hand?”

TRUMP: “No. It was my opinion Iran was going to attack first.” 🤔

(IRAN’S FM EARLIER: “What imminent threat? Were we invading the shores of 🇺🇸? Sending missiles to the White House? Rubio says they entered on behalf of Israel.”) pic.twitter.com/mBk6Hwut6d

— The Tennessee Holler (@TheTNHoller) March 3, 2026

Or did he?

REPORTER: Yesterday you told us Israel was going to strike Iran and that's why we needed to get involved. But today the president said Iran--

RUBIO: No. Were you there yesterday?

REPORTER: Yes. I asked the question pic.twitter.com/PIUVZ2uhIC

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 3, 2026

Rubio: "I am not the droid you are looking for.” <runs away>

Rubio: Listen, let me explain to you guys this in simple English, okay? Iran is run by lunatics religious fanatic lunatics. They have an ambition to have nuclear weapons. They intend to develop those nuclear weapons behind a program of missiles and drones and terrorism. That the… pic.twitter.com/61BWVyNdoZ

— Acyn (@Acyn) March 3, 2026

Rubio: Listen, let me explain to you guys this in simple English, okay? Iran is run by lunatics religious fanatic lunatics. They have an ambition to have nuclear weapons. They intend to develop those nuclear weapons behind a program of missiles and drones and terrorism. That the world will not be able to touch them for fear of those things. And this is the weakest they've ever been. Now is the time to go after them. The president made the decision to go after them, take away their missiles, take away their Navy, take away their drones, take away their ability to make those things so that they can never have a nuclear weapon. That's why the president made this decision. It was the right decision. And the world will be a safer place when these radical clerics no longer have access to these weapons. You see how they're using them. Now imagine how they would use them a year from now if they had more of these

Choose your adventure. (Running away would have worked better. BTW, Iran is attacking American military bases in the region, because America is attacking them. We invaded Afghanistan because Al Qaeda attacked us on 9/11, and was operating out of Afghanistan. That’s kinda the way it works. As Auden wrote: “I and the schoolchildren know/what everyone must learn/Those to whom violence is done/do violence in return.” And this time, we shot first.)

Mullin: This is war

*moments later*

Raju: You concede this is war?

Mullin: We haven’t declared war.

Reporter: You just said it’s a war.

Raju: You’re not conceding it’s a war?

Mullin: We haven’t declared war. pic.twitter.com/ujIBd3yRIx

— Acyn (@Acyn) March 3, 2026

Rubio should have gone with the “It’s not ‘war,’ war” defense.

John Thune at 2:26- "There was an imminent threat"https://t.co/QPxtFR2hSk

Lindsey Graham at 3:17- "It doesn't have to be imminent to me, because you don't want it to be imminent. The whole idea is for it to not be imminent, dumbass."https://t.co/03FcIfqD6q pic.twitter.com/r4Vr1hnqlJ

— Aaron Fritschner (@Fritschner) March 3, 2026

"No one likes us,/I don’t know why./We may not be perfect,/but heaven knows, we try./All around, even/our old friends put us down./Let’s drop the Big One, and see what happens.”—Randy Newman, “Political Science.”

Things have changed so much since 1972.

Lindsey Graham: "If somebody is threatening my family, wants to rape your wife and burn down your house and kill your children, I don't want to until they get to the gun store and the gas station" pic.twitter.com/ndZxNO8RrL

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 3, 2026

Would they need an ID to buy that gas?⛽️